ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,380, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery management system, battery pack, energy storage system and battery management method" was invented by Ui-Yong Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Il Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyung-Jin Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea) and In-Cheol Shin (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed is a battery management system that may include a battery monitoring device to detect a voltage of each of a reference battery cell and a plurality of battery cells having a common flat region, and detect a current of the battery pack, and a control ...